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  • So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn. -- Ted Hughes
  • Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet. -- Diablo Cody
  • Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either. -- Clifton Fadiman
  • I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. -- Samuel Wilson
  • It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers. -- Gloria Allred
  • I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. -- Jane Fonda
  • As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe. -- Brad Goreski
  • My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control. -- Erika Christensen
  • Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself. -- Robert Vaughn
  • Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. -- Lydia M. Child
  • Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. -- Cordell Hull
  • Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility. -- Adam Clarke
  • As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions. -- Lavrenti Lopes
  • I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. -- Richard Francis Burton
  • When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage. -- Saffron Burrows
  • By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been. -- Ruth Reichl
  • The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice. -- Philip Greenspun
  • A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. -- Wole Soyinka
  • But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro. -- Tucker Max
  • I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight. -- Chang-Rae Lee
  • Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. -- Anthony Edwards
  • But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia. -- Julie Bishop
  • In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct. -- Michael Shnayerson
  • I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote. -- Theodore Bikel
  • This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back. -- Ann Hood
  • The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant. At the time, that seemed like a great job - wash the windows, pump the gas - it looks so cool coming home with black hands. There's a natural transition, from wanting to be a gas station attendant to being an actor, right? -- Daniel Stern
  • Envy, the attendant of the empty mind. -- Pindar
  • Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers. -- Doris Lessing
  • Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. -- Richard Powers
  • Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. -- John Milton
  • Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence. -- Paul Fussell
  • Why does every flight attendant seem like they are going through a divorce? -- Natasha Leggero
  • Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest. -- J. B. Smoove
  • In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell. -- Theodor Adorno
  • A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. -- Felix Morley
  • Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant. -- Bill Nelson
  • What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness. -- Michael Dirda
  • ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. -- Peter Weiss
  • You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken. -- William Carlos Williams
  • It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate. -- James Bryant Conant
  • Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant. -- John Calvin
  • Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good. -- David Spade
  • Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage. -- Suzanne Collins
  • I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right. -- Robert Preston
  • I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.' We'll walk. -- Kenneth Oppel
  • Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares. -- George Crabbe
  • ..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact... -- Joseph Campbell
  • [The banshee (from ban [bean], a woman, and shee [sidhe], a fairy) is an attendant fairy that follows the old families, and none but them, and wails before a death. -- W.B. Yeats
  • No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. -- T. S. Eliot
  • Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. -- Dorothea Dix
  • If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all. -- Ron Brackin
  • We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other. -- Stephen Covey
  • Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction. -- David Novak
  • [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky. -- Harrison Ford
  • Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . . -- Dennis Prager
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